Ethan Knight
MRes, BSc
Qualifications
Master of Research in Neuroscience
Bachelor of Science in Psychology
Contact information
Probationer Research Student (DPhil in Primary Health Care)
Ethan Knight is a DPhil student in Primary Health Care at Hertford College, University of Oxford. He works within the Oxford Tobacco Addiction Group (OxTAG), based in the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, and is funded by a Society for the Study of Addiction PhD Studentship, with additional University of Oxford funding. His doctoral research examines the role of mood in early relapse during smoking and vaping quit attempts, with a particular focus on comparing relapse processes in the general population and among people with a history of mood disorder. He is supervised by Dr Nicola Lindson and Dr Angela Wu.
Before starting his DPhil, Ethan worked as a Research Assistant in OxTAG, contributing to the TRIDENT project, which aimed to develop a complex intervention to reduce smoking among people with serious mental illness. As part of this work, he led evidence-synthesis projects examining factors influencing switching from tobacco cigarettes to e-cigarettes, including among people living with mental illness. He also contributed to patient and public involvement activities, helping to embed lived experience into the design and interpretation of research.
Ethan has also worked within the Sustainable Health Food Group in the Health Behaviours Team, where he contributed to research on alcohol calorie labelling and population-level approaches to reducing alcohol-related harm. In addition, he served as a representative for research assistants within the department’s Early and Mid-Career Researcher group.
He completed a BSc in Psychology and an MRes in Neuroscience at Newcastle University, where his research focused on addiction, behavioural medicine and the neurobiology of substance use. During this time, he also worked as a research assistant on acute alcohol intoxication trials. His broader research interests include addiction science, smoking and vaping cessation, relapse mechanisms, harm reduction, mental health, behavioural medicine, public health and evidence synthesis. His work has been published in journals including Addiction, BMC Medicine, Patient Education and Counseling and Biological Psychology.